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Translated from French by Howard ScottAssi Manifesto is a celebration of the Innu land in the tradition of Josphine Bacon. This telluric power is reminiscent of Paul Chamberland's Terre Qubec. Natasha Kanap's challenge is to name her land, but also to reconcile opposites.In this collection of poetry, the author engages with the environment, colonialism, anxiety, anger, healing, solitude, and love. Assi in Innu means Land. Assi Manifesto is primarily a land of women. If the manifesto is a public space, Assi is a forum of life, a song for those who open their spirit to its mystery.
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Taking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn, and in her cry generations of women's voices echo. Stories, both benign and traumatic, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush, exact imagery, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea, Lee is a careful observer, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights.FromMitochondrial Night: We're drumming,he explained, in the traditionof shamans,so the ancestors won't be so lonely.Because spirits need usmore than we need them.And for hours they'll listen to anyone
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"As a Filipino-American conscious of his multiple identities and the trove of experiences and external forces that shaped him, Gray uses the unfettered landscape of poetry to release himself and others from the limitations that aggrieve undocumented immigrants." --New City LitRooted in the experience of living in America as a queer undocumented Filipino, Documents maps the byzantine journey toward citizenship through legal records and fragmented recollections. In poems that repurpose the forms and procedures central to an immigrant's experiences--birth certificates, identification cards, letters, and interviews--Jan-Henry Gray reveals the narrative limits of legal documentation while simultaneously embracing the intersections of identity, desire, heritage, love, and a new imagining of freedom.
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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. As a child of immigrants, Yaya Yao always "craved an unbroken narrative: an arc that would give my existence a sense of context and continuity." In this brilliant and provocative first collection she confronts her inherited fragmented self and her hunger for a home, using scraps of personal and communal memory to bridge languages, worldviews, and physical distance from the ancestral homeland. Bits of Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, and Shanghainese are translated and altered to explore the dynamics between language and identity. In this collection, Yaya Yao has created a unique and authentic voice.
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This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives. One is the self of the citizen-soldier, and the other is the self of the husband and father. His poems reveal the brutal ways in which these selves collide and bleed into one another.
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The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jefferss career. During this period, he wrote not only many of his most well-known lyric poems but also Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan Stallion, and The Women at Point Sur-the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts presented here gather Jefferss four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which Jeffers believed was the most inclusive, and poetically the most intense of his narrative poems.
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A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the centre of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on his first essay collection when he died of cancer in 2019. That collection, One by One, The Stars, presents new, highly personal essays tracing Stuckey-Frenchs childhood in Indiana and a burgeoning interest, during adolescence, in politics and social justice to his life as a father, teacher, and writer.
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"In his second collection, Christopher Kondrich asks how and why we place value and meaning on lifes intangibles. Valuing questions the origination of ones value system through deeply personal poems that explore faith, love, ethics, and mortality. As they strive for presence and understanding, the poems in Valuing remind us, as one speaker proclaims, "you cannot sneak through your life."--Back cover.
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Included in this frequently inspiring and often poignant volume of plays, originally published in 1985, are works penned in the same era as the Vietnam War from some of the most revered playwrights in the national canon. The challenging work within--from playwrights like Terrence McNally, Emily Mann and David Rabe--reflects on the social and political ethos of this pivotal moment for America.Plays include Streamers by David Rabe, Botticelli by Terrence McNally, How I Got That Story by Amlin Gray, Medal of Honor Rag by Tom Cole, Moonchildren by Michael Weller, Still Life by Emily Mann, and Strange Snow by Stephen Metcalfe.
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